Hi, i'm putting together a fishing gear chest for scenic purposes (as a prop) and i found out a decent number of artificial lures look kinda like gummy candy. Hypotetically speaking could you use gummies as both lure and bait?
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What i thought is the candy could both provide scent and colour in low visibility water, has anybody done that?
People have caught bass with gummy worms before. The scent/flavour isn’t ideal, but they totally work. Throw a dark blue or dark green one.
If you could make your own, but add shrimp/fish soup stock to the mix, I bet they’d work even better. Fish seem to like salty and umami flavours/scent.
Unmodified gummy candy should probably be worked like a lure, idk if the fruity flavour will draw them in. Bluegill might strike a tiny piece of bright candy on a hook, but they will also eat a cigarette butt, so idk if it’s the flavour there going for.
You can use it as rocket fuel, so maybe?
People will probably say this is fake but at my pond there used to be bass in it. Probably more than a decade ago I was fishing with my sibling, and there’s a simpsons episode that has a line about Homer using gummy worms to catch gummy fish, and we were eating sour straws. I mentioned this and jokingly put a gummy sour straw on the hook and as I was reeling in it got taken to the side by something, really strong and fast, so if it was a fish and green plastic can attract them then I’m guessing bright green gummies can too.
I knew a dude who caught a walleye on a piece of licorice once. I think they might like the licorice specifically because of the anise.